“What?" she asked.
"You're beautiful."
She rolled her eyes. "Flattery will get you laid."
"I sure hope so.”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“It was like a date - a weird, twisted date that would probably end with them killing something”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“Holy f*ck, everything they'd said was true.”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“I see you as Lily. I see you for who you are, even though you don't.” -Julian”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“I’m going to start from the beginning. All I ask is that you don’t interrupt and you silently pray Luke returns with a milkshake quickly, because they make me happy. And you want to keep me happy.” -Lily”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“الاستهلاك هو أحد أشكال التملك, وربما هو أكثرها أهمية في مجتمعات الوفرة الصناعية المعاصرة, والاستهلاك عملية لها سمات متناقضة: فالاستهلاك عملية تخفف القلق لأن ما يمتلكه الإنسان خلالها لا يمكن انتزاعه, ولكن العملية تدفع الإنسان إلى مزيد من الاستهلاك, لأن كل استهلاك سابق سرعان ما يفقد تأثيره الاشباعي, وهكذا فإن هوية المستهلك المعاصر تتلخص في الصيغة الآتية:
انا موجود بقدر ما أملك وما استهلك.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“Bluntly and quietly, in a series of simple, forthright sentences, she dismantled the architecture of unhappiness that had been growing up around us for the past several days. She was calling from the office she said, and had to talk in a low voice, 'but if you can hear me, Sid' she began, 'there are four things I want you to know. First, I haven't stopped thinking about you since I left the house this morning. Second, I've decided to have the baby, and we're never going to use the word "abortion" again. Third, don't bother to make dinner. [...] Fourth, make sure Mr. Johnson's ready for action. I'm going to attack you the minute I walk in the door, my love, so be prepared.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Oracle Night
“To say what happened, the mere facts, the disposition of events in time, would come to seem like a kind of treachery. The dominoes of moments, lined up symmetrically, then tumbling backward against the hazy and unsure push of cause, showed only that a fall is every object's destiny. It is not enough to say what happened. Everything happened. Everything fell.”
― Kevin Powers, quote from The Yellow Birds
“Do you think we're getting back together?"
"Getting? No," Mace answered then continued,
"Back together? Yes”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“He also knew that this woman was different from all the women who'd come before her. That part scared the shit out of him and excited him all at the same time. What if she was the one? That woman who, when a man saw her, he was instantly struck with the knowledge that he was done for. Like Mia was for Gabe. Like Bethany was for Jace. The one.' -- Ash”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
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